Inspired by her own mother's thirty-year struggle with manic depression, alongside her own battles for a balance of strength and sensual vulnerability, Swallowed Hollow depicts a woman beset by fear and delusion, disillusion and frustration.
'Swallowed Hollow' - Created and performed by acclaimed dancer/choreographer Tanya Crowder, with sound score by Valerie Calam, Swallowed Hollow explores the mind and body under duress.
Impassioned and vulnerable, and utterly human, Crowder's physical explorations play upon a tangled web of perceived persecution and isolation transfixed within the struggle for sanity.
"… ambitious in both theme and execution" -Globe and Mail "
"… a tour de force…" -The Toronto Star
accidental dances - "one of perhaps a dozen contemporary modern dancers in Canada who is simply breathtaking in motion." -The Ottawa Citizen, Julia Sasso performs an expanded version of her critically acclaimed 2006 solo, accidental dances. Set to the music of iconic Canadian composer, Ann Southam, "accidental dances… resonates with an emotional potency…Hovering on the brink between what has already passed and what will come to pass, she leaves us in anticipation… torn between the binary relationship of longing to regret." –MERGE. In accidental dances Sasso courageously weaves her spontaneous physical responses into choreography inspired by Southam's sublime solo piano compositions.
unspeakable - features Tanya Crowder in the world premiere of a riveting new solo by Julia Sasso. Commissioned by HOWDARESHE productions, Sasso's choreography reveals Crowder's physical virtuosity and interpretive maturity. Catherine Thompson's original score sets the tone for this dynamically nuanced solo. "A new work by… Sasso is a reason to get up and dance…" - NOW
Tanya Crowder – has been described as "….a marvelous dancer with wonderful control" -Globe and Mail. Tanya has worked with many choreographic luminaries throughout her thirteen years as a professional dance artist. Since 2002, she has been a company member of Kaeja d'Dance. In addition, her own choreographic works have been presented in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Guelph. Tanya is the Artistic Director of HOWDARESHE Productions and produces Dance Matters, a curated showcase for finished works created by both emerging and established local choreographers.
Julia Sasso - Julia Sasso is a choreographer, performer and master teacher. She has created choreography for feature film, television, theatre and more than fifty original dance works for the concert stage. Her choreography has been commissioned and presented throughout Canada, in the United States and in Europe by Harbourfront Centre, the Canada Dance Festival, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada, Toronto Dance Theatre, Dancemakers and Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers among others. She performed internationally with Toronto's Dancemakers for sixteen seasons and continues to perform independently.
Ann Southam After completing musical studies at the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music in the early 1960's, Ann Southam began a teaching and composing career which has included a long and productive association with modern dance. As well as creating music for some of Canada's major modern dance companies and choreographers including The Toronto Dance Theatre, Danny Grossman, Dancemakers, Patricia Beatty, Christopher House and Rachel Browne, she has been an instructor in electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She has composed concert music for a variety of acoustic instruments and instrumental ensembles, working with such artists and ensembles as Eve Egoyan, Beverley Johnston and Arraymusic. Ann Southam's work has been commissioned through the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the CBC, and has been performed in Canada, Europe and the U.S. She is a member of the Canadian Music Centre, the Canadian League of Composers and a founding member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers.
Valerie Calam - A Sault Ste. Marie native, Valerie Calam studied dance with Sherry Walsh before moving to Toronto to train at The School of TDT. Since graduating she has worked the Danny Grossman Dance Company and TDT. She has worked independently with David Earle, DNA Theatre, Sharon Moore, Sasha Ivanochko, Michael Trent, CORPUS, Cathy Gordon, Julia Aplin and William Yong. Ms. Calam is a choreographer and sound designer working under the name Vice Versa. Her most recent choreography, From the Top to the Middle, was presented in June 2007 as part of Full Scale Revolution's debut performance.
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Starts: May 13, 2008
Ends: May 18, 2008
At: Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Movement, 6 Noble Street, Toronto Playing: Sunday Saturday Friday Thursday Wednesday Tuesday
Times: 8 pm, Sun 2 pm Cost: $18, $14 student/senior, CADA, artists, call about group rates, Sunday Pay What You Can
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For more information contact:
Tanya Crowder Phone:
416-204-1082 Email:
howdaresheproductions@gmail.com
